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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2022-44638): pixman vulnerability

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Nov 3, 2022
Added
Nov 9, 2022
Modified
Apr 16, 2026

Description

In libpixman in Pixman before 0.42.2, there is an out-of-bounds write (aka heap-based buffer overflow) in rasterize_edges_8 due to an integer overflow in pixman_sample_floor_y.

Solutions

ubuntu-pro-upgrade-libpixman-1-0ubuntu-pro-upgrade-libpixman-1-devubuntu-upgrade-libpixman-1-0
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